Karl König (politician)

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Karl König (born May 9, 1910 in Alsenz ; † March 14, 1979 in West Berlin ) was a German SPD politician and economist.

Life

King, who during the Third Reich began his studies, was sitting because of its social democratic conviction three years in prison - he was co-organizer of the socialist resistance group Red shock troops - before it to the war front in the Criminal Division 999 was transferred for disciplinary reasons. There he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was only released in 1949.

In 1950, after his return to Berlin, he finished his studies and received his doctorate in 1951. König then found a job at BVG , of which he became the manager. From 1965 to 1968 he was SPD district chairman in Berlin-Schöneberg.

As a Senator for Economic Affairs , Karl Schiller, after the federal election in 1965 in the Bundestag moved to reign by the House of Representatives to succeed Schiller in the Berlin Senate voted. König remained in this office even under Brandt's successors as governing mayors , Albertz and Schütz , before resigning from the office of Senator for Economics in 1975.

In the same year he was elected President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). He held the office until his death in 1979.

In his first marriage, Karl König was married to the Berlin medical student Liselotte Steinbrenner (married in Berlin in 1938), who was killed in a bomb attack in 1943. In his second marriage he married the theater photographer Ruth Wilhelmi . Both marriages remained childless.

literature

  • Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism (= Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center , Analyzes and Representations, Volume 11 ). Lukas, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-274-4 .
  • Rudolf Küstermeier: The Red Strike Squad. Berlin 1972. (Report by a former member of the group's management, as a PDF file here )
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich. Resistance from the labor movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007 (pp. 76–84) ISBN 3-936872-94-5 , ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 .
  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Berlin 2008, pp. 144–189, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 [illustration of the group with numerous biographies and documents]

See also

personal data
SURNAME King, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsenz
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1979
Place of death West Berlin